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Ballet West announced its inaugural Summit Festival in Park City, Utah, featuring live performances, a farm-to-table dinner with Ballerina Farm, and a free documentary screening in partnership with Park City Film.

The 92nd Street Y, New York's Harkness Dance Center has announced its 2026-27 season, featuring world premieres, returning festivals and performances from acclaimed dance artists and companies from across the United States and around the world.

First-look photos have been released for the second season of Solo Traveling with Tracee Ellis Ross, the Roku Original series featuring the award-winning actress as she embarks on solo travels around the world. Check out the new photos now.

BEAUTY AND THE BEAST, the reimagined Broadway touring musical, is a truly magical experience at Centennial Hall. This touring production, which features new musical arrangements and choreography, is largely a success. The production mostly stays faithful to the music by Alan Menken, lyrics by Howard Ashman and Tim Rice and book by Linda Woolverton.

Pop-rock artist Cami Clune has shared details of her forthcoming seven-track album, should be sleeping, which will be released on Friday, July 10. The project fuses pop, rock, and country influences along with theatrical storytelling.

Following the new musical BASURA’s opening in Atlanta, BroadwayWorld exclusively checks in with director Michael Greif to discuss its ‘exciting’ and ‘informational’ journey.

Theater Masters presented playwright Heidi Schreck with its Standing Ovation Award, recognizing her contributions to American theatre, including WHAT THE CONSTITUTION MEANS TO ME, which earned two Tony nominations and a Pulitzer Prize finalist nod.

The Very Popular Theatre Company announced an all-Australian cast of 31 performers for MAMMA MIA! at The Star Gold Coast, with five Gold Coast and Brisbane locals in principal roles.

CAP UCLA announced its 2026-27 season spanning music, dance, theater, and film, featuring Akram Khan Company's final touring production, a world premiere punk operetta starring Kathleen Hanna, and Kronos Quartet performing an all-Glass program.

The North American tour of THE SOUND OF MUSIC, produced by Concord Theatricals and NETworks Presentations and directed by Tony Award winner Jack O'Brien, will play Boston's Boch Center Wang Theatre.

Olympic champion Tessa Virtue will perform without skates for the first time in her career at Toronto's FALL FOR DANCE NORTH festival, alongside a lineup including a Tony Award winner's Canadian debut.

Terence Frisch returns to Watford Palace Theatre for his 14th pantomime season as Dame Christmas, joined by Michael Lambourne as Ebenezer Scrooge in A CHRISTMAS CAROL: THE PANTOMIME.

RuPaul's Drag Race UK star Kate Butch returns to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe with a new stand-up show, dissecting online backlash and the shadiest moments of her life through sequins, proverbs, and foliage.

Comedian Eleanor Morton returns to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe with THE MERMAID, a stand-up show blending mythology, folklore, and personal experience to examine gender, beauty standards, and bodily autonomy.

Aarian Mehrabani, co-writer of IT'S A MOTHERF**KING PLEASURE, will bring his debut solo stand-up show HOW'S YOUR HEAD? to Edinburgh Festival Fringe, drawing on his brain cancer diagnosis and personal identity.

A new documentary film is exploring the history of WHAM!’s 1985 visit to China, spotlighting the band's performances in Beijing and Guangzhou. Titled WHAM! 10 Days In China, the film will release in cinemas worldwide, in partnership with Event Cinema distributor Trafalgar Releasing, on July 28.

Ticket sales to the West End revival of Sunday in the Park With George, starring Ariana Grande and Jonathan Bailey, have been delayed. As of June, performances are still slated to begin at the Barbican Centre in summer 2027.

Opera enthusiasts, and devotees of Seattle Opera in particular, have been grieving the recent loss of a titan whose memory never will be absent from the minds of people who knew and loved him. Having succeeded Seattle Opera founder Glynn Ross in 1983 as the company’s second general director, Jenkins held the position for an unprecedented 31 years, from 1983 to 2014.

At a time when stories are being challenged, erased, and reimagined in real time, the communities most impacted are often cared for the least, with few industry spaces designed specifically for their support. In 2020, three powerhouse theater artists and Tony Award nominees, Amber Iman, Jocelyn Bioh, and Danielle Brooks, set out to change that. What began as a desire to celebrate Black women working in theater has grown into Black Women on Broadway (BWOB), a thriving community dedicated to mentorship, recognition, wellness, and professional development for Black women working both onstage and behind the scenes.

Omega Ensemble will present INNER LANDSCAPES across four Australian cities, featuring the world premiere of Paul Stanhope's Clarinet Concerto and the Australian premiere of Grammy winner Jessie Montgomery's 'Rounds.'

BLACK, BOLD & BEAUTIFUL, a cabaret blending jazz, R&B, Broadway, gospel, spoken word, and comedy, will take the stage at 54 Below, featuring Richmond, Virginia artists honoring Black women through music and storytelling.

Bellissima Opera will present Mozart's THE MARRIAGE OF FIGARO at the Nineteenth Century Charitable Association in Oak Park, IL, starring baritone José Luis Maldonado in a new adaptation exploring censorship and privilege.

Annalee Jefferies, Constance Shulman, and Gus Birney will lead the cast of THE CANNIBALS OF McGOWER COUNTY at TheaterWorks Hartford in an upcoming production this summer.

FRIGID Nightcap will present ARCADIA NEON, a special Queerly Festival edition, at Under St. Marks in NYC's East Village, featuring draglesque, burlesque, and performance art exploring queer myth and futurity.

The Tsinandali Festival returns to the Tsinandali Estate in Georgia, featuring the Pan-Caucasian Youth Orchestra in four concerts led by Gianandrea Noseda, alongside soloists including Lisa Batiashvili and Pinchas Zukerman.